Pasta Primavera With Ham

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A pasta cooker makes draining spaghetti a pleasure. Simply lift the colander insert up and out, give it a shake, and voilà -- no whoosh of steam as you struggle to pour the pasta and water into a strainer in the sink. Then toss the spaghetti with long, thin strips of veggies in a delicious lemony broth.

Total Time: 0:45

Cook: 0:15

Level:
Easy

Serves:
4

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Ingredients

1 package thin spaghetti

Salt

4 medium carrots

4 small zucchini

1 tbsp. olive oil

1 large onion

1 clove garlic

½ tsp. freshly grated lemon peel

¼ tsp. dried thyme

.13 tsp. crushed red pepper

1 c. chicken broth

4 oz. deli ham in 1 piece

Directions

In large pasta cooker with colander insert, cook spaghetti in boiling salted water as label directs.

Meanwhile, following manufacturer's directions, use V-slicer fitted with thin julienne blade to slice carrots and zucchini lengthwise into matchstick-thin strips; set aside.